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Can you quit your job if you so choose? Can you organize with others to strike for better wages or conditions? Do you have a legal right to collective bargain?
Promoting these values not necessarily in the political ecology of society but at least in your place of work is participating in workplace democracy, which is sometimes unrelated to societal political democracy and sometimes rightly and tightly linked to it.
Some analysts are doctrinaire, with quotes like,
I am claiming is that republicans, democrats, and co-travelers who affirm workplace democracy thereby commit themselves to socialism. Those workplace democrats cannot disembark the democratic train at workplace democracy; they must ride it to the very end, and that end is socialism. (Vrousalis, 2019, p. 259).
This unbending categorical definition is likely as useful to Marxists as it is to the forces intent on destroying Marxism; that is, not useful much to real world actors simply trying to bring more democracy to all arenas of life in order to serve all our enlightened self-interest.
Conflict transformation is less rigid on all aspects of this component of participating in democracy--all aspects except the need to use best practices of conflict transformation in pursuing this activity and its many possible goals.
Hence, evincing respect for all humans in the mix--all members or potential members of an employee union, all members of management, and all the shareholders or owners--is a core component of conflict transformation as it applies to participating in this form of democracy--economic democracy, possible at times even in a dictatorship.
Workers' rights equals workplace democracy. Pushing for more of them or volunteering to be a union worker is participating in real life lived experience democracy.
References
Vrousalis, N. (2019). Workplace Democracy Implies Economic Democracy. Journal of Social Philosophy, 50(3), 259–279. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/10.1111/josp.12275
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